Applicable(?) Aphorisms #21

"Speak only that which is true, pleasant, and beneficial." (Hinduism, Mahabharata 5:167)

True, false, good, bad, useful, not so useful, etc.? Discuss.

My thoughts:

Hard disagree.

The "true" and "beneficial" elements are redundant -- you're always better off saying, and knowing, the truth.

But that's not always pleasant, and sometimes the truth is more important than making yourself, or others, feel good.

Wordle 1806 Hint

Hint: Prompted response when informed that you're on Candid Camera.

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First Letter: S

A Partial Victory!

Per the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

After public outrage, California lawmakers are moving closer to exempting open source operating systems from the sweeping age-bracketing regime mandated by last year’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043). ... EFF understands this amendment to exempt open-source operating systems from the requirement to collect and transmit users’ age-bracket data. That is a definite win for open source developers.

Whether that means that systemd's developers will undo their insertion of a "birthdate" field remains to be seen. If so, Linux Mint will go back on my list of "Linux distros to consider if I ever decide I'm tired of MX Linux." If not, no biggie.

Small potatoes, I guess. Even if the California legislature hadn't exempted open source OSes from their idiot bill, Linux users would have been able to tell the California legislature to kiss our asses right in the crack. But it's always nice to make the sociopaths back down.